Around 1,200 students are stranded in Quaid-e-AzamUniversity (QAU) and Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) in Islamabad due to the road blocks on Islamabad-Murree Road on which both these institutions are situated, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Muhammad Ahsen Nadeem, a student of Department of Economics of QAU, told Pakistan Today on phone that around 1,000 students including himself are stuck in hostels of Quaid-e-AzamUniversity for the last five days.
Although there were no regular classes these days, many male and female students had been staying in the varsity due to their thesis and research work, he further told.
He told that the parents of these students were asking them to come back to their homes but no student could leave the university due to the non-availability of cabs and roadblocks all around the university premises. “Our parents are very much worried about our safety and want us to leave Islamabad amid uncertain political situation,” he told nervously.
The stranded students have urged the university administration to manage for their rescue from the hostels.
A student of PIDE told Pakistan Today that there were around 200 students stranded in male and female hostels situated on Park Road near Chak Shahzad. “We are here to prepare our thesis and conduct research but now we feel stranded as we cannot even go to the campus and university administration has shown its inability to arrange for our travel for home towns.”
No one from the administration of both the educational institutions was available for comment on the situation due to the weekly holiday.
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